How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking
Smart TVs can feel like a dumb choice if you’re looking for privacy, reliability, and simplicity. Today’s TVs and streaming...
Instead of fixing WoW’s new floating house exploit, Blizzard makes it official
Long-time World of Warcraft players have been waiting 21 years for the new in-game housing features that Blizzard officially announced...
Fewer EVs need fewer batteries: Ford and SK On end their joint venture
Cast your mind back to 2021. Electric vehicles were hot stuff, buoyed by Tesla’s increasingly stratospheric valuation and a general...
Ars Live: 3 former CDC leaders detail impacts of RFK Jr.’s anti-science agenda
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in critical condition. This year, the premier public health agency had its...
US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say
Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export an advanced artificial intelligence chip, the H200, to China may give China...
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings color e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader
Amazon has been updating the large-screened Kindle Scribe tablet more frequently and regularly than it updates its standard e-readers, and...
Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter
In a surprising, and likely temporary, turn of events, the number of people paying to watch cable channels has grown....
Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch “Twitter,” says Musk abandoned the name and logo
A Virginia startup calling itself “Operation Bluebird” announced this week that it has filed a formal petition with the US...
AMD’s next-gen “FSR Redstone” brings big gains, as long as you’re using a new GPU
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel have all made high-quality image upscaling a cornerstone feature of their new GPUs this decade. Upscaling...
Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4
Long ago, Google’s Android-powered wearables had hands-free navigation gestures. Those fell by the wayside as Google shredded its wearable strategy...